• randint@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Probably not, but the convention is that periods and commas always stay within the quotes, whether the period or comma is a part of the quote or not. (This differs from what one expects from writing code.) When using question marks though, the placement does depend on whether the question mark is a part of the quote.

    Edit: When I was younger, I also didn’t know this and would place all punctuation marks according to whether it is a part of the quote. In fact, in my native language that is what you’re supposed to do. To this day I still dislike this convention in English.

    Edit 2: I know that this is an American English thing.

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      1 year ago

      If I remember correctly, this is a US thing. We were taught to place punctuation depending on whether they are part of the quote. So

      I was reading ‘War and Peace’.

      but

      She asked me ‘Tea or coffee?’

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      1 year ago

      Fuck convention when it doesn’t make sense, though. I’m gonna put stuff that’s part of the quote within the quotes and nothing else.

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      1 year ago

      (This differs from what one expects from writing code.)

      I learned syntactic analysis at the same time as I learned to write code, and that convention always looked to me like made up by someone who learned none. “Ego dixi”.¹

      ¹Psalmus 40:5